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AN ART-UNION BRONZED COPPER MODEL OF NELSON'S COLUMN
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more NELSON'S COLUMN The Nelson Memorial Committee proposed a General Subscription for the purpose of erecting a national Nelson monument in London in 1838. Willliam Railton won the design competition, his Corinthian column decorated with bronze acanthus leaves cast from British cannon finally completed in 1843, Baily's 5.5 metre high statue of Nelson, facing south, towards the Palace of Westminster, surmounted the 56 metre granite column in November, the bas reliefs of the four battle scenes around the base added in 1854 and Landseer's lions placed at the four corners in 1867.
AN ART-UNION BRONZED COPPER MODEL OF NELSON'S COLUMN

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AN ART-UNION BRONZED COPPER MODEL OF NELSON'S COLUMN
inscribed on plinth ART-UNION OF LONDON, 1869, mounted on a wooden base -- 26in. (66cm.) high
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